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Warner Bros. is gaga over 3D, and it looks like that enthusiasm is affecting their catalogue films as well as upcoming releases. Today's case in point: Zack Snyder's 300.

SuperHeroHype spoke to Snyder recently about the 3D plans for his forthcoming Legend of the Guardians and Sucker Punch, and 300 came up during the course of their chat. The directed revealed that the studio had converted part of the film in order to convince him that the format was the way to go with his new movies.

"I saw maybe like a 10-minute section that they'd just done," he said. "I haven't seen the whole movie but they're talking about doing the whole movie [for release]."

The filmmaker also addressed the oft-discussed 300 prequel, which he may be directing as soon as next year. The film is reportedly going to be about the Persian king Xerxes… But that's contingent on writer Frank Miller's finishing the thing first, which as any fan of Miller's work can tell you is never a sure thing. (Holy Terror, Batman!, anyone?)

"He's been working hard, so he's supposed to show me something really soon; actually in the next few months he's going to show me something," Synder told the site. "There was a big discussion about what we would do for the sequel to 300 and I said, 'I didn't tell Frank what to write the first time, and I'm not telling him what to write this time.' … I'm not going to say I'm one-hundred-percent, like that's it, but on the other hand, I'm pretty confident it's going to be awesome."